How Jesus Dealt With Rejection

Don’t walk away from Church because you’ve been hurt, if you belong to a Church, any Church you’re feelings are going to be hurt at one time or another, just count the sunsets and it will happen, please, please don’t fall into a depression because of being rejected, because you will only cheat yourself out of what God really wants you to do and it’s (rejection) really not worth your soul salvation in the first place. Jesus left because He had to be about His Father’s business and so He just let the message that He gave them stand—it was up to them to accept it or reject it. And so how do we deal with rejection? We go to God and get His instructions and His guidance as to what we should do, it is actually as simple as that.

The story was told of a young preacher who was rejected by the other associate ministers of the Church he attended. They said very little to him and would often talk behind his back. One day he went to the pastor and expressed his intentions of leaving the Church and seeking membership somewhere else because he was deeply affect by the rejection he received. He said to the pastor, “I don’t know what I’ve done to make these fellows dislike me so much” he said, “I really want to be a part of their fellowship and I’ve done everything I possibly could to be a friend to them but for some reason they keep on rejecting me”. The pastor was a wise and seasoned man of God and he said to the young preacher “Why don’t you look out the window for a moment and tell me what you see?”

The young preacher said, “I see two trees, I see a china-berry tree and a pecan tree.” The pastor said, “Look a little harder and tell me what you see?” The young preacher said, “Well, I see a lot of sticks and rocks around the pecan tree but it is very clean around the chinaberry tree, there’s nothing but green grass around china-berry as a matter fact” the pastor said, “Then that’s your answer, the reason why you don’t see sticks and stones around the chinaberry tree is because that tree doesn’t have anything that people want. But it’s different with the pecan tree, people throw things at it because they want what it has.” If you have the favor of God and an anointing, it is quite possible that people will throw some things at you that you really don’t want.

CONCLUSION:

And so when you feel you just don’t belong, go to God with your concern, because for sure with Him you are 100% welcome. In our text, Jesus did not allow rejection to stop Him from doing what God called Him to do—He immediately sends the disciples out into the villages to preach and teach and heal. And in verse 11 of this sixth chapter He even tells His disciples, “If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”

What exactly did Jesus mean? I believe He meant for them to not allow their egos to get in the way; not to become angry or bitter and not to keep trying to convince people to accept them because most of the time when others reject us it is done to feed their own ego, rejection is dangerous, very dangerous. If we allow it to fester, if we allow it to attach itself to us, we allow the very people who reject us to control us as well. And I don’t know about you but the only One I will allow to have control of my life is God Himself. Amen.